Cessna 172K
N78640 is a Cessna 172K, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Bethel, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 10, 2023 and expires on March 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172K · all 172Ks and related versions
- Serial number
- 17257698
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 105 mph
- Transponder code
- AAA9CD (octal 52524715)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 10, 2023
- Expires
- March 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- March 10, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard
- FAA region
- Alaskan
- FAA record id
- 00934990
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Glasheen Sean T
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- PO Box 425
Bethel, AK 99559-0425
Owners can ask the FAA to withhold their name and address from public files. When they do, those fields are blank here as well. How that works.
Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 1 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N78640, read the way a buyer, lender or insurer reads it: FAA registration, prior tail numbers keyed on the serial number, reuse of the tail number, recent registry filings, and the NTSB accident record under this and every earlier registration.
Valid registration to Glasheen Sean T, an individual, certificate issued March 10, 2023, expires March 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17257698 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N78640 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-11 (serial 11-1401, cancelled November 17, 1960). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]
No bills of sale, loans or releases have reached the registry in recent weeks. The index covers only recent filings; older liens are in the records file. [3]
No NTSB investigation records located under N78640. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]
These live in the FAA aircraft records file (every document ever filed against the aircraft) and, for larger aircraft, the International Registry. Part of the full report.
AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
This automated check reads the public federal record. Nothing here is a legal opinion, an appraisal or a statement about the aircraft's condition; a CLEAR line is a statement about the searched record, not the aircraft.
Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data